WASHINGTON — Reports state that President Trump might soon issue an executive order protecting the rights of religious groups following his decision to keep an Obama-era order banning groups that contract with the federal government from “discriminating” against homosexuals and transgenders in their business or non-profit organization.

The outlet The Nation obtained a leaked copy of the draft order, which allegedly protects faith-based entities “when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state or local governments.”

It also reportedly protects the tax-exempt status of any group that “believes, speaks, or acts (or declines to act) in accordance with the belief that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, sexual relations are properly reserved for such a marriage, male and female and their equivalents refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy, physiology, or genetics at or before birth, and that human life begins at conception and merits protection at all stages of life.”

As previously reported, on Tuesday, the Trump administration advised that it would keep intact Obama’s order, #13672, which amended a 1969 order by then-President Richard Nixon prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating based on “race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap and age,” as well as a 1998 order from then-President Bill Clinton adding “sexual orientation” to the list.

“President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election,” the White House said in a statement. “The president is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression.”

“The executive order signed in 2014, which protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors, will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump,” it outlined.

But some evangelicals expressed concern over the administration’s decision to leave the order in place, stating that it is rather discriminatory to people of faith.

“No for-profit contractors will be allowed to work on any part of the president’s infrastructure plan without an all-out embrace of sexually non-normative behavior,” lamented Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association.

“No landscape business, no printer, no food service provider, no janitorial service, no IT company, no vendor, and certainly no bakers like the Kleins will be permitted to do any work for any federal agency unless they bend the knee to sexual anarchists and treat homosexual behavior as the moral equivalent of heterosexuality,” he said.

Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, however, said that he be believed that Trump would likely release an exemption of some sort despite the retention of the Obama-era order.

“I think this is going to be addressed,” he told NBC. “I have every confidence [that he will].”

Conservative commentator Matt Lewis remarked in a Tweet, though, in light of Trump’s actions, “Do we even need the ‘Republican’ qualifier? Trump is arguably more ‘pro-gay’ than Obama was when first elected.”

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Somebody In Texas

So President Trump. Who will Protect the Christians and Religion Jews from the LGBT Lefties ?

Grace Kim Kwon

Sin has no equal rights with anything. The Western nations have been crazy in promoting the destructive sexual immorality. A sad result of stressing only the individual freedom, ignoring God’s truth and morality. The West had a problem of oppressive racism before. This century, it is oppressive immorality. Homosexuality leads to pedophilia. Look what UN is doing. Americans should really stop this. May God deal with the civilization that corrupts itself and hurts children.

johndoe

Homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia

Jason Todd

False. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. Only the peanut butter is made of arsenic and the jelly cyanide.

William

I have worked for the superior courts in my five-county judicial circuit for the past two and a half years and I have had only one case involving child molestation by a homosexual male. The majority of these crimes have been committed by married military heterosexual males.

Jason Todd

Your avatar indicates a bias, perhaps self-serving. I have no reason to believe you.

William of Glynn

I made my truthful comment with the understanding that you would not believe me because your comments demonstrate a self-serving bias.

Jason Todd

That comment is incoherent. Try again.

William of Glynn

Did we do a fly-by? Read it again … slowly this time.

Jason Todd

Your…comment….makes….no….sense.

Your attempt at trying to project onto me like some five-year-old (You are! No, you are!) shows you have no idea what a self-serving bias is.

William of Glynn

I clerk for five superior court judges, so maybe I just went over your head a bit. My apologies.

Jason Todd

In other words, you got nothing except a self-serving bias.

Good day, sir!

james blue

So why are so many heterosexual pedophiles caught?

Grace Kim Kwon

Christian West = sane and respectable. Secular West = immoral and insane.

james blue

So why are so many Christian heterosexual pedophiles caught?

Grace Kim Kwon

Sheer numbers: most of humans are heterosexual. Many Westerners claimed to be Christian as if to claim to be civilized. Westernized women behave like prostitutes by showing much skin and that’s why many men chase after children. Homosexuality promotes pedophilia, not just ends up to it. A huge difference.

james blue

You have to be one of the most ignorant people on the internet, and you have plenty of competition.

Grace Kim Kwon

You need Christian population in your society to become civilized again. Pagans conduct barbarisms and Western secularists force unthinkable immorality.

Florenca Mcdowell

Dear James says the moron to the teacher. You must be defending yourself in these posts.

james blue

Please do not think of yourself as a moron, or me as your teacher. I’m simply offering my opinion

Florenca Mcdowell

Well there are not really heterosexual if they are pedophiles if a man likes a boy that does not make him heterosexual but it does make him a pedophile. If he was a heterosexual his preference would be little girls.

And how in the world can you say accusing an entire group of sexual abuse isn’t inflammatory?

Jason Todd

Don’t know the former, but the latter molested boys, which makes him a homosexual. Oops!

SFBruce

Not exactly. Jerry Sandusky is married, and to my knowledge, has never professed an interest in physical intimacy with other adult men. All his victims were underage boys. This conforms with studies that indicate adult men who seek other adult men for physical intimacy are a different group from those who sexually abuse underage boys and girls.

And I’ll repeat my larger point, which you completely ignored. A list of bad guys doesn’t say anything about a larger group to which they might belong. Both Fine and Sandusky abused underage kids and they’re both coaches, but their bad behavior is on them, not on coaches as a group.

Jason Todd

So why are you so interested in defending homosexual pedophiles (and Sandusky is one; his being married isn’t relevant)?

SFBruce

If you want to respond to what I’ve actually written, we can talk. Unless and until that happens, there doesn’t seem to be much point.

Jason Todd

If you are going to in any way defend homosexual pedophilia, there’s nothing to talk about.

SFBruce

Show me where I’ve defended anyone who abuses underage kids?

johndoe

Proof? You’re just regurgitating christian talking points.

Amos Moses

sexual perversion is sexual perversion ……..

johndoe

Faux christians are faux christians

Amos Moses

no doubt ……….

Grace Kim Kwon

Christians promote the good and moral and what is right. Secularists and humanists promote blasphemy, immorality, infanticide, and suicide.

johndoe

That’s not even close to being true. You shouldn’t post such falsehoods

Grace Kim Kwon

It’s true. The West has no sanity or morality apart from the Judeo-Christian values. Today’s corrupt hedonist generation proved that. The Westerners of yesteryears are like angels comparing to today’s baby-killing Sodomic liberals.

johndoe

You can’t truthfully say that ALL liberals are abortion supporters. There are conservatives that push that agenda also.

Grace Kim Kwon

There is no known liberal or atheist who does not support abortion. Such is a non-existent species. There is no known Western atheist whose language is clean, either. Many conservatives oppose both abortion and same-sex marriage.

johndoe

Have to say that is a total fabrication. I’m an atheist who doesn’t support abortion. There are many conservatives who do support those things. Quit twisting the narrative.

Grace Kim Kwon

What do you do for the unborn children? Doing nothing about the known crimes means supporting the crimes. Atheists cannot value human life. You need to repent of your sins of unbelief to get saved. Read John chapter 3.

johndoe

I take care of kids in the hospital. Being atheist has nothing to do with valuing human life

Grace Kim Kwon

Atheists NEVER value human life. They kill Christians and unborn babies and those who do not comply in the communist nations. They kill unborn babies and force Christians to serve immorality in Western nations. Psalm 14 is true.

johndoe

You must be off your meds. Atheists in the US don’t have any interest in killing christians or babies. You need to get a grip on reality.

Grace Kim Kwon

They will if they become communist. Communists kill believers. It’s sad the USA is becoming like the barbaric empires their forefathers have beaten up. You guys need Christianity to get saved and be good.

Grace Kim Kwon

You must work to abolish abortion; otherwise, you do not value human life.

johndoe

Wrong

Grace Kim Kwon

You should go to a Bible-believing church to hear the Word of God on Sunday like all good Westerners would do. Your name is from one of the Apostles. Poor your parents.

Florenca Mcdowell

You have proof of your statement. BTW if you are an Atheist why do you NOT believe in Abortion. Could it be because there might be a God and lets face it life is life some babies are just fortunate enough to get a women who respects ALL life.
Look up when a heartbeat happens in unborn baby. I can almost guarantee
YOU there WERE NO CHRISTIANS IN THE PINK HATTED CRAZYIES

johndoe

Spurious comment at best. How does being atheist have anything to do with my beliefs about abortion? Hint…..it doesn’t. As far as your comment about the women’s march, prove it.

Florenca Mcdowell

No well how many Christian women we marching in pussy hats saying I have a right to murder unborn baby because its mine. That is infanticide, look it up dummy. Tell us Mr. IQ Now who should not be posting? answer YOU.

Grace Kim Kwon

They are together. Western Sodomites have sex with anyone or anything. Genesis chapter 18-19, Leviticus chapter 18-20.

johndoe

Not nearly to the extent that heterosexuals do…….

Grace Kim Kwon

Hetero-sexual monogamists are the only normal and moral humans. It is wrong to have sexual lust on the same-sex members, kins, kids, animals, robots, and whatever others. Period. The same-sex members are for friendship, loyalty, sisterhood and brotherhood, and for nothing else. All else are wrong.

Western Europe is allowing child marriage and incest and Canada has already made beastiality legal. If the West does not follow Christianity, there won’t be any sanity left in the West.

johndoe

We’re not talking about Canada and Western Europe. We’re talking about America. Nobody has been jailed for refusing to serve a gay wedding. Religious discrimination isn’t allowed here by businesses. This is a nation built on the concept of following the faith of your choosing. Not theocratic in the least.

Grace Kim Kwon

Yes, it happened in the USA. Because you are on bullies’ side, you did not notice anything. Homosexuality is a sin. Christians serving gay weddings is like serving Satanic rituals. You Westerners have no sense of fairness or even common sense apart from Christianity.

johndoe

How am I on the bullies side? Who are they? Nobody is being asked to participate in gay weddings. They also have nothing to do with your boogeyman. They are about two people in love.

Grace Kim Kwon

You are wrong. Sodomic USA destroys Christian businesses if they refuse to serve the Sodomy. Same-sex members are for friendship, brotherhood, and sisterhood alone. All others are sin. Read Romans 1. The West got a full-stomach and started slavery by homosexuality. It’s typical of godless rich people; they seek warped amusement by bending the truth and normal people’s clean conscience. The 21st century’s villain slave-owner is the hedonistic Western culture. You guys need Christianity to be normal and moral.

Grace Kim Kwon

You guys got crazy by having everything on a starving planet. No submission to rich Sodomic West. You guys are normal only when you follow Christianity.

Tony

YOU can NOT pick and choose what of GOD’s Laws you follow. I am Gender-fluid. They have not idea of what it is like to be different.
I have Cis-Gender friends the talk with me even on the phone and tell
me You are a girl or you sound like one. I am just being normal and
just talking. A few of my friends in-person say that same thing. I do
not know how to be and i am not trying to fake something i am not.
It is Not a Act for me. NOT
a Disease and NOT a Sin. ________________________________ Let
me Educate you a bit. By the way i am a Republican , >Not a
Libtard The Transgender
Brain development___________________________________ How
does the M to F Transgender? Like the normal male embryo,
the Male to female Transgender brain it starts out female
Then between the 8th and the 24th weeks, the “XY” chromosomes
introduce testosterone hormonal changes, BUT hormonal washes
as faulty. They are either insufficient or ill timed. When
this happens, the fetus develops a male body. However, some of
the default (original) female brain processes to remain intact.
Thus, the brain’s gender Identity remain intact. Thus,the brain
gender Identity remains Female. This means that Transgender males
whose process of a masculinization was incomplete, their default
female brains still function. The degree of arrested development
can very. The original brain circuitry that was missed in the
Masculinizing process provides a continuing Feminine influence.
this explains why many transgender, biological males know. from
as early as the age of 3 years old that they are actually members
of the opposite gender. You are born with this unlike Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual).
Though they too have some of the same traits. Gender is not sexuality but,
it may effect it.I know this in my own life.*** Ultimately everyone
needs and deserves love and be who they are in their Gender or who they
love. *** ***Trans-gender people are not the perverts and pedophiles
like 80% of the unintelligent population thinks. what Morons to think
badly. You Unintelligent fools to believe as this. You bring in the
Bible and talk about Homosexuals OK that is a sin . Trans-people are
Not the same as that. John 14:6 King James Version (KJV) 6 Jesus saith
unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. *** Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.***__ I AM CREATED BY GOD > I am trans-gender and i
am still a Christian. Judge not lest ye be judged. The Trans-gender
people have been around since before Jesus was on earth. John 3:16 i am
saved. Your Judgement on my is a Sin. Let those without sin cast the
first stone ! _ Matthew 7:1-3King James Version (KJV) 7 Judge not, that
ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And
why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? We are ALL crated in His likeness
that is BOTH Male and Female.We are Created in his Likeness BOTH male and Femnale.
To make a Mix of the two in one person is Not sacrilegious.

Grace Kim Kwon

You are wrong. God created man and woman. Period. The West got a mental illness by being too well-fed and having everything for the longest time on a starving planet. The West was normal only when it adhered Christianity. God destroys every Sodom. Read Jude chapter 1. Mankind cannot submit to mentally ill people anyway, no matter how rich and powerful those insane people are.

Bezukhov

I’m a Jupiter worshiping Pagan. That’a a sin. So I shouldn’t have any rights?

Grace Kim Kwon

Stop being bored but be serious about life and read the Holy Bible and listen to the Christians in your land, the only good and normal people in the West; it cures secular Westerners. Stop insulting Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism by claiming coversion. Your conversion is a joke. You Post-Christian Westerners are just a bored species and nothing else. Religious people are very serious, and none of them are immoral bored like secular Westerners are. You guys don’t take life serious and claim to be anything out of boredom; that’s your problem as a species.

It is a draft — not an order. You can tell by the lack of alphabetical integrity in section identifiers. Based on the editing it is neither a first nor final draft. If in fact this did end up as an EO it would be about what I expect from Trump.

On the other hand, the nation’s nondiscrimination laws are at the state and municipal level. There is nothing that Trump can do that will have any effect on those measures.

johndoe

If they can’t sue a Christian baker or florist, you can bet your boots that they won’t ever set foot in those places again. This disgusting targeting of Christian business needs to stop. These people don’t want to get a cake or flowers, they want to use the law to shut down Christians’ businesses – which seems to fit the definition of “hate crime.” They need to learn to TOLERATE Christians in America, since they’ve been telling us for years we are supposed to tolerate them. The ones who hate Christians can simply avoid doing business with Christians. They should not have the right to shut those businesses down.

johndoe

Nobody’s business has been targeted. Businesses have rules and regulations they have to follow. Public accommodation laws are a part of that….

HazumuOsaragi

If they can’t sue a Christian baker or florist, you can bet your boots that they won’t ever set foot in those places again. This disgusting targeting of Christian business needs to stop.

I propose that some sort of standardised sign be prominently displayed that declares the business’s – or an employee’s – intent to not engage in acts, nor engage with people, that are opposed by the business’s/employee’s sincerely held religious belief.

Such a sign will save time all around. The businesses/employees will not have to deal with a customer who was unaware of the business’s/employee’s sincerely held religious belief, and the people who bear the various stigmata of sin will be warned not to shop there, and that, after such notice, entry to the facility will be criminal trespass.

A win-win, no?

Tangent002

How about this:

“This business does not fully comply with city, county, state, and/or federal Civil Rights laws regarding the non-discriminatory treatment of the following protected classification(s) of citizens:

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender

Nearby service providers of comparable quality and price: [List of three alternate providers]

This notice must be prominently displayed on all storefronts, web sites, advertisements, billing statements, job postings, and other publicly-viewable informational material.”

HazumuOsaragi

Are you good with that?

Yes, with that or similar wording and level of notice display. If there is to be a RFRA or FADA, it’s unfair to those whose sin-stigmata will evoke a religious belief -motivated negative encounter receive fair warning that they are not welcome. It’s no fun – and not fair – being surprised by a shaming that was totally unexpected.

I’m curious, though, what will happen if there are not three alternate providers – or even one – in a reasonable radius from the business in question?

Definition of an immoral pervert? Someone who believes that their sex lives determine what everyone else must do and that others must approve of it, or face severe consequences and who bases any and all relationships on said approval. You know, something normal straight people would never do.

And of course, if you’re a transdoodle, which means that you have a delusion (the DSM lists it as “gender dysphoria” and a delusion is what a dysphoria is), then others must not only pretend you’re not mentally ill, but also approve of it and applaud it, because with this mental illness, proper tteatment means to help them fully live out their delusion and criminalize wanting nothing to do with it.

Thank You,

The Left

TheKingOfRhye

The definition of dysphoria is abnormal depression or discontent, not “delusion.”

TheKingOfRhye

Sounds a lot like “separate but equal” if you ask me.

William of Glynn

Much like Ms. Stutzman’s loyal gay customer who bought flowers from her for 10 years? You mean that kind of targeting? I suppose he was waiting for just the right moment to strike. Now, that’s what I call patience.

Nidalap

Couldn’t strike on account of “gay marriage” until there was “gay marriage” to strike on account of, so…yeah…

Emmanuel

Trump wants to please everyone but he will one day have to hurt someone. He can’t ride the fence for the next four years. This circus will come to an end soon and someone will be mad. Which side will he pick? my guess, the left.

Not to worry. He is hurting 10s of thousands of innocent people right now, especially families (including small children) who have been thoroughly vetted and trying to flee a high probability of being killed either for their religious beliefs or for helping the U.S. military.

That should make you happy.

Nidalap

10’s of thousands thoroughly vetted? Come ON now.
The ones they said would do this vetting have already let us know they have no way of doing it…

Emmanuel

How can you say I am happy about that? please explain

Nidalap

Poor Trump. He won’t gain their favor like this.
When he says protection, he means actually not letting them be fired unfairly and such.
They want to use the “protections” as a back-door method of stripping Christians of their constitutional protections.
Trump doesn’t seem like he wants to go that route just now so he is ,of course, an enemy to their cause…

Why would anyone expect differently. Trump embraced the sodomite and lesbian movement during in campaign, including in his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, and indirectly in his inaugural speech.

President Trump provides us an opportunity like nothing else we’ve seen in a long time for awakening people to Yahweh’s sovereignty, Christ as Lord and Savior, and His moral law as supreme over His entire creation, but probably not in the way most Christians would think.

“Donald J. Trump: Cyrus or Nimrod? Part 1” Click on my name, then our website. Go to our Audio Messages page and scroll down to the bottom of the page to Part 1.

Tony

You can NOT pick and choose what of GOD’s laws you follow. I am Gender-fluid. They have not idea of what it is like to be different.
I have Cis-Gender friends the talk with me even on the phone and tell
me You are a girl or you sound like one. I am just being normal and
just talking. A few of my friends in-person say that same thing. I do
not know how to be and i am not trying to fake something i am not.
It is Not a Act for me. NOT
a Disease and NOT a Sin. ________________________________ Let
me Educate you a bit. By the way i am a Republican , >Not a
Libtard The Transgender
Brain development___________________________________ How
does the M to F Transgender? Like the normal male embryo,
the Male to female Transgender brain it starts out female
Then between the 8th and the 24th weeks, the “XY” chromosomes
introduce testosterone hormonal changes, BUT hormonal washes
as faulty. They are either insufficient or ill timed. When
this happens, the fetus develops a male body. However, some of
the default (original) female brain processes to remain intact.
Thus, the brain’s gender Identity remain intact. Thus,the brain
gender Identity remains Female. This means that Transgender males
whose process of a masculinization was incomplete, their default
female brains still function. The degree of arrested development
can very. The original brain circuitry that was missed in the
Masculinizing process provides a continuing Feminine influence.
this explains why many transgender, biological males know. from
as early as the age of 3 years old that they are actually members
of the opposite gender. You are born with this unlike Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual).
Though they too have some of the same traits. Gender is not sexuality but,
it may effect it.I know this in my own life.*** Ultimately everyone
needs and deserves love and be who they are in their Gender or who they
love. *** ***Trans-gender people are not the perverts and pedophiles
like 80% of the unintelligent population thinks. what Morons to think
badly. You Unintelligent fools to believe as this. You bring in the
Bible and talk about Homosexuals OK that is a sin . Trans-people are
Not the same as that. John 14:6 King James Version (KJV) 6 Jesus saith
unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. *** Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.***__ I AM CREATED BY GOD > I am trans-gender and i
am still a Christian. Judge not lest ye be judged. The Trans-gender
people have been around since before Jesus was on earth. John 3:16 i am
saved. Your Judgement on my is a Sin. Let those without sin cast the
first stone ! _ Matthew 7:1-3King James Version (KJV) 7 Judge not, that
ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And
why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? We are ALL crated in His likeness
that is BOTH Male and Female.We are Created in his Likeness BOTH male and Female.
To make a Mix of the two in one person is Not sacrilegious. Judge Not me, I too am a Christian ..

Nidalap

It does seem to be a strong delusion to be sure.
Don’t despair though. You can still be free of it yet…

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